Beauty, memory, unity : a theory of proportion in architecture and design /
Bass, Steve
Beauty, memory, unity : a theory of proportion in architecture and design / Steve Bass - Hudson, NY : Lindisfarne Books, c2019. - xii, 355 pages : illustration. ; 31 cm. - (Classical America series on art and architecture) .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Keith Critchlow
Introduction
I. The Search for the beautiful : Position of proportion
Number and beauty
Pythagoras and qualitative number
Psyche
Remebrance and the journey of the soul
Plotinus on beauty
Beauty and the good
Diotima's lecture on beauty
The liberal arts : A pythagorean-based creation myth
Oneness: the monad
Twoness: the dyad
Threeness: the triad
Fourness: the tetrad
Fiveness: the pentad
The pentad and phi
The root powers
The decade
The teraktys
The platonic lambda
Number, geometry, music
Ration, proportion, logos
Astronomy
Looking up and down
II. Number harmony design : Introduction
A geometrical creation story
The musical octave
A tetrastyle portico
An ontogeny of the root powers
Properties of the root rectangles
The golden section
Squaring the circle
A tetrastyle portico
Creating a Ø scale
Tetrastyle portico[s]
Hexastyle portico[s] ; Octastyle portico[s]
The classical order and canon of 19
The Doric capital
The Ionic capital
The Corinthian capital
Entablatures of the three principal orders
Pediments
Superposition
Arcades
Palladio's harmonic ratios for rooms
Harmonic volumes of Robert Morris
An expansion of the tetrastyle
An expansion of the hexastyle
The "pillar" of Egypt
Vertical expansion
Geometric rectangles of Hambidge
Division of the frame
III. Proportion in practice : Introduction
Egypt
Greece
Rome I: Vitruvius
Rome II
The medieval era
Early Renaissance
Late Renaissance
The Enlightenment
IV. The present moment
Examining the sense of unity and harmony in architecture, and calling for a return to the use of proportion, this book ranges impressively from ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome to the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Enlightment.
978-1-58420-967-6
ARCHITECTURE -- COMPOSITION, PROPORTION, ETC.
PROPORTION (ANTHROPOMETRY) IN ART.
ARCHITECTURE -- COMPOSITION, PROPORTION, ETC.
NA 2760 B37 2019
Beauty, memory, unity : a theory of proportion in architecture and design / Steve Bass - Hudson, NY : Lindisfarne Books, c2019. - xii, 355 pages : illustration. ; 31 cm. - (Classical America series on art and architecture) .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Keith Critchlow
Introduction
I. The Search for the beautiful : Position of proportion
Number and beauty
Pythagoras and qualitative number
Psyche
Remebrance and the journey of the soul
Plotinus on beauty
Beauty and the good
Diotima's lecture on beauty
The liberal arts : A pythagorean-based creation myth
Oneness: the monad
Twoness: the dyad
Threeness: the triad
Fourness: the tetrad
Fiveness: the pentad
The pentad and phi
The root powers
The decade
The teraktys
The platonic lambda
Number, geometry, music
Ration, proportion, logos
Astronomy
Looking up and down
II. Number harmony design : Introduction
A geometrical creation story
The musical octave
A tetrastyle portico
An ontogeny of the root powers
Properties of the root rectangles
The golden section
Squaring the circle
A tetrastyle portico
Creating a Ø scale
Tetrastyle portico[s]
Hexastyle portico[s] ; Octastyle portico[s]
The classical order and canon of 19
The Doric capital
The Ionic capital
The Corinthian capital
Entablatures of the three principal orders
Pediments
Superposition
Arcades
Palladio's harmonic ratios for rooms
Harmonic volumes of Robert Morris
An expansion of the tetrastyle
An expansion of the hexastyle
The "pillar" of Egypt
Vertical expansion
Geometric rectangles of Hambidge
Division of the frame
III. Proportion in practice : Introduction
Egypt
Greece
Rome I: Vitruvius
Rome II
The medieval era
Early Renaissance
Late Renaissance
The Enlightenment
IV. The present moment
Examining the sense of unity and harmony in architecture, and calling for a return to the use of proportion, this book ranges impressively from ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome to the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Enlightment.
978-1-58420-967-6
ARCHITECTURE -- COMPOSITION, PROPORTION, ETC.
PROPORTION (ANTHROPOMETRY) IN ART.
ARCHITECTURE -- COMPOSITION, PROPORTION, ETC.
NA 2760 B37 2019
